New Apple Mini-Site Promotes ARKit Augmented Reality Platform

Imagine if the line between the virtual and the real simply didn’t exist.

Your classroom could become the cosmos. The past could be as vivid as the present. And the familiar could look like nothing you’ve ever seen.

With iPhone and iPad, those experiences are not only possible, they’re here. Augmented reality is a new way to use technology that transforms how you work, learn, play, and connect with almost everything around you. And this is just the beginning.

Welcome to a new world.

The new site includes sections dubbed “Productivity,” “Play,” and “Learning.” Each section features sample apps and videos demonstrating how they work. Highlighted apps include IKEA Place, Pokemon Go, Complete Anatomy and Sky Guide.

Also included is a section dubbed “AR + iPhone + iPad,” which promotes iOS 11 – the first version of iOS to include ARKit – as well as the devices that support ARKit. Spoiler alert: the iPhone 8 and iPhone X work best with AR apps.

The site also includes links to the Augmented Reality section on the App Store.

ARKit compatible iOS devices include:

iPhone

iPhone X

iPhone 8

iPhone 8 Plus

iPhone 7

iPhone 7 Plus

iPhone 6s

iPhone 6s Plus

iPhone SE

iPad

MacTrast Senior Editor, and self-described “magnificent bastard,” Chris Hauk owns Phoenix Rising Services and writes for everyone’s favorite “bad movie” website, Big Bad Drive-In. He lives somewhere in the deep Southern part of America. Yes, he has to pump in both sunshine and the Internet.